Hello,
I love electronic music, and generally am a details person. Growing up I took piano lessons for 4-5 years, and was also in band in high school. I do computer programming as a job.

I don't have any exposure to any of the hardware for making electronic music, for instance a 303, or drum machine (and only have a very basic understanding of it all). I downloaded the trial version of Reason a year ago, and felt way over my head. I own a regular piano, but not an electronic one. I have a decent computer, running Windows 7.

This weekend I downloaded the trial of MixCraft 5, and it was fun to play with, but I feel like without some sort of musical input (midi keyboard or something), I would only get frustrated with it over time.

I guess I'm looking for advice - I can see that I could really have fun doing something like this, but every time I try it out I feel completely lost, and am trying not to spend a fortune before figuring out if I like it. Is this something I should try out?

Where should I start? Is there free software that I should be playing with? How do you get more familiar with the hardware without buying it?

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